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More to the Story

I keep being amazed how time flies when you’re working your ass off. I have been. I’ve also been under the weather … not sick enough to be “ooooh, I’m soooo siiiickkkk” but feeling crappy enough to...

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Pictures Have Stories: City of Terrors

It’s scary to realize I was making art for Flying Buffalo and Tunnels & Trolls 33 years ago. More than that, actually, but for purposes of this post, that’s the relevant timeframe. In 1978 or so, a...

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Pictures Have Stories: the Summoner

SOME PICTURES ASK you to delve into them, to explore all the bits of imagery included in the scene. The piece I call “The Summoner” is like that. I wanted to give the viewer so many little bits to...

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Pictures Have Stories: Into the Tunnels

I PROMISED TO post up another piece of old art for sale when I wrote about “The Summoner” last week. I thought I would get it up in a day or two, but it took a little longer. If it’s true that, as I...

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Art at TusCon

LAST WEEKEND I attended TusCon*, the local science fiction/fantasy convention here in Tucson. I missed it for the past few years, so it was good to go back. I made a point of matting and framing a...

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Ya Oughta Be in Pictures, Kid

NOT SO LONG ago, I had a brainstorm. But before I tell you the time, let me build you the clock. Quite a while back, Patrice Geille commissioned me to do some fresh illustrations for his new French...

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Buffalo Castle pictures, update

I HAVE BEEN a bit surprised by so many people stopping in to read about the Buffalo Castle artwork offer I made last week. It’s been gratifying, and I am looking forward to starting this project soon....

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Busy Making Art

SO MUCH FOR my resolution to write every week or ten days. Alas, blogging is only a piece of what I do, and I believe in writing posts that have a bit of meat to them. I could throw you a bone every...

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Card Alteration: Complete

SOMETHING IS GOING on amongst the gamers in Europe. And I like it. Back when I was painting card art regularly, I got asked to sign a lot of cards, particularly Magic and Middle Earth cards. Companies...

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Magic Art

TWO DECADES AGO, I was attending GenCon, the big hobby-game convention around which the whole industry orbited. I had to miss this year’s convention, sadly, and I badly miss the inspiration of being...

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My Quirky Relationship

I’VE BEEN DOING a lot of catch-up after being sick for so long. August was still hit-or-miss in the health department, but now — mid-late September — I’m pretty much back to feeling like myself...

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Pictures Have Stories: How I came to paint “Elven Lords”

THIS POST IS a companion to Pictures Have Stories: Two Seconds Later, written and posted on the same day. If you came to this post first, keep reading to see why I’m writing two at once, after months...

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Pictures Have Stories: Painting “Two Seconds Later”

MONTHS HAVE PASSED since I wrote last in this blog. Today I’m writing two at once, for reasons that will make sense as you read on. This post is a companion piece to Pictures Have Stories: Elven Lords...

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Will the Opportunity Pass You By?

I PLANNED TO close the auction of my two paintings a few days ago, but have been persuaded to keep it live a little longer. There was something about “Buy this painting or we’ll kill a bunny.” I’m not...

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Auction is over!

MY THANKS GO out to everyone who talked to me about the paintings. There was a wee bit of last-minute interest, but the auction is now closed. And no bunnies died, David!  I recognize that original art...

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Pictures Have Stories: Hymn to Tourach

HYMN TO TOURACH was not a title that made an impression on me initially. At the close of a long convention — Origins, I believe — I was saying goodbye to Sandra Everingham who was then Magic’s art...

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Pictures Have Stories: Get the Picture?

SOME COMMISSIONS ARE special. Earlier this year, a nice spring morning brought me an exceptional email. The writer, Brian, introduced himself as a longtime fan of my work, someone who played Tunnels...

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